Railway General Knowledge.

[DerekC]

No. Read the question again. (Do I hear the metallic sound of skean dhus and claymores being sharpened north of the border?)

Oops - hides head in shame! I can hear the distant skirl of "Blue Bonnets over the Border"!

No idea about the first English 4-6-0. Just remembered seeing the preserved Jones Goods somewhere and didn't read the question properly!!

 

[341o2]

LNER B13 1899 designed by Worsdell

 

[Gloster]

LNER B13 1899 designed by Worsdell

No: NER S 2001 was built three years later.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Robinson's Class 8 for the GCR?

 

[Gloster]

Robinson's Class 8 for the GCR?

Three years away from the S, but in the wrong direction.

 

[Gloster]

As a clue: the loco had outside frames.

 

[D6130]

Great Western Railway Dean-designed prototype heavy freight loco no. 36, built in 1896. (Confession time: I found it via Google, therefore open floor

 

[Gloster]

Great Western Railway Dean-designed prototype heavy freight loco no. 36, built in 1896. (Confession time: I found it via Google, therefore open floor

Correct. The loco was built to haul coal trains from Newport to Swindon. Although it lasted less than ten years the GWR must have been fairly satisfied, considering how many 4-6-0 they later built.

So, open floor.

 

[Snow1964]

As it is open floor

There are at least 10 stations that have closed on electrified lines (with line remaining open) in Southern England

I am not including where lines have closed, or been transferred to something else, eg tramlink

How many stations can you name ?

 

[xotGD]

Primrose Hill
King's Cross Thameslink

 

[Ashley Hill]

Denton Halt
Milton Range Halt

 

[Gloster]

Dover Western Docks
Boscombe (?)
Shakespeare Cliff Staff Halt (?)
Carshalton South (or was it North)
And if you go north of the river:
Broad Street
Tilbury Riverside

 

[Snow1964]

Dover Western Docks
Boscombe (?)
Shakespeare Cliff Staff Halt (?)
Carshalton South (or was it North)
And if you go north of the river:
Broad Street
Tilbury Riverside

Boscombe closed before line was electrified

Don’t think Carshalton South existed, are you thinking of Coulsdon North?

Dover Western Docks, Broad Street and Tilbury Riverside were all on lines that are no longer open

 

[Snow1964]

Denton Halt
Milton Range Halt

The Line from Gillingham to Rochester was electrified in 1939

Denton Halt is ok, Milton Range halt closed to public in 1932 but lingered on as a private station for the firing ranges until 1956 (I had to look this up),

 

[xotGD]

Rochester

 

[Gloster]

Twickenham (old station)

 

[Peterthegreat]

Chislet Colliery
East Brixton
Folkestone East
Ardingly
Newhaven Marine?

 

[Gloster]

Ditcham Park Halt.

Didn’t Radipole close before the third rail arrived in Weymouth, or is that allowed?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Ditcham Park Halt.

Didn’t Radipole close before the third rail arrived in Weymouth, or is that allowed?

You are correct. It closed four years before electrification.

 

[D6130]

Ampress Works Halt?

Selsdon?

 

[Gloster]

Crystal Palace High Level
Lordship Lane
Honor Oak (Park?)
I think there was another one.

 

[Trog]

If you were to allow stations that closed before the wires went up and stations where the still open section is on a different ELR/line to the closed part where the wires are there are more than ten just between Euston and Rugby.

Primrose Hill LEC1
South Hampstead
Queens Park. (Still used occasionally don't know if it has any timetabled services,)
Willesden Junction
Hatch End
Castlethorpe
Roade
Blisworth
Weedon
Welton
Church Brampton
Althorpe Park
Kilsby and Crick

 

[Snow1964]

Crystal Palace High Level
Lordship Lane
Honor Oak (Park?)
I think there was another one.

These are not on a line that is still open

 

[Snow1964]

If you were to allow stations that closed before the wires went up and stations where the still open section is on a different ELR/line to the closed part where the wires are there are more than ten just between Euston and Rugby.

Primrose Hill LEC1
South Hampstead
Queens Park. (Still used occasionally don't know if it has any timetabled services,)
Willesden Junction
Hatch End
Castlethorpe
Roade
Blisworth
Weedon
Welton
Church Brampton
Althorpe Park
Kilsby and Crick

Wasn’t really within the spirit of the question, of station closed where line is already electrified and line is still open.

Had it been you could have had all the stations from Didcot towards Chippenham and Bristol Parkway etc

 

[xotGD]

So who is winning?

 

[Snow1964]

Chislet Colliery
East Brixton
Folkestone East
Ardingly
Newhaven Marine?

First 3 yes,

Ardingly still has a freight line, but was de-electrified

Yes for Newhaven Marine (it was electrified in 1947, 12 years after rest of Newhaven branch)

 

[Snow1964]

So who is winning?

I will give it to @Peterthegreat with 5

Others I can think of were St Leonard’s West Marina, Eltham Park, Eltham Well Hall (one station replaced both), Grove Ferry

 

[Peterthegreat]

Besides all beginning with the letter "S" and being on the coast what do Saltburn, Scarborough and Shanklin have in common?

 

[Calthrop]

Besides all beginning with the letter "S" and being on the coast what do Saltburn, Scarborough and Shanklin have in common?

They are all now rail passenger termini; formerly, in one way or another, the lines on which they lie had services running further on. (Saltburn is / was at the end of a little spur, but essentially the Middlesbrough -- Whitby coastal route was involved; Scarborough has and had routes coming in from the south, but a one-time route ran on northward to Whitby.)

 

[Peterthegreat]

They are all now rail passenger termini; formerly, in one way or another, the lines on which they lie had services running further on. (Saltburn is / was at the end of a little spur, but essentially the Middlesbrough -- Whitby coastal route was involved; Scarborough has and had routes coming in from the south, but a one-time route ran on northward to Whitby.)

Interesting answer but not the one I'm looking for.